شَعّثهُ

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شَعّثهُII , Verbal.Noun تَشْعِيثٌ, He rendered it [shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy: or] matte, or compacted, and dusty: or he rendered him [shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy, in his hair: or] matted, or compacted, and dusty, in his hair.
2 تَشْعِيثٌ also signifies The separating, disuniting, dispersing, or scattering, a thing. And The making to separated like as do rivers and branches. [Hence,] شعّث رَأْسَ السِّوَاكِ [He made the head of the tooth-stick to become disintegrated; or separated, disunited, or uncompacted, in its component parts or its fibres; or rendered it brushy; by bruising it, battering it, or mangling it by blows: see 1].
3 شعّث السَّنَا He took of the straggling branches, or sprigs, of the senna, without pulling it up by the roots.
4 See also 5, in two places.
5 شعّث النَّاسُ فِى الطَّعْنِ عَلَيْهِ The people took, or began, to impugn his character, censure him, reproach him, or speak against him, by befouling his reputation (بِتَشْعِيثِ عِرْضِهِ).
6 And شعّث مِنْهُ He detracted from his reputation; syn. غَضَّ مِنْهُ and تَنَقَّصَهُ: from الشَّعَثُ [as Verbal.Noun of 1 in the last of the senses assigned to it above,] meaning اِنْتِشَارُ الأَمْرِ.
7 And also, Verbal.Noun as above, He repelled from him, or defended him: or he defended his reputation. [Thus it has two contr. meanings.]

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